Pick-y, pick-y, pick-y; the continuing saga of a woman in search of a new favourite pick

michelew
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Sun Jun 26, 2011 4:34 pm

Hahahaha! Sorry, that's a good one! LMAO! :laugh:

reiver wrote:
It's OK, Michele - so long as you're arranging them in type and thickness order you're quite sane. When you start arranging them in order of the colours of the rainbow.............. that's when things may have taken a turn for the worse.

Stuart


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Sun Jun 26, 2011 4:40 pm

It's just a nylon pick Shel, and the electric guitar pick isn't readable anymore. Actually it belonged to the guitarplayer of this band 'Live', you know from 'Overcome'?, he threw it in the audience after playing a show, but even the name of the band isn't readable anymore.... :(

But I'm afraid that I've really lost the 'Graceland'-pick.... :( ...

michelew wrote:
nesh16041972 wrote:
Picks, picks, pick, haha! :laugh:

Well you got yourself a great collection, that's for sure!

My favourite, hmmmm....no favourites, maybe my pink 'Graceland'-pick, but I lost it during a performance a couple of months ago :( .....but that was more because it was Elvis related.

However, I use the grey one, Dunlop 88 all the time, and a thicker one for the electrical guitar, like the green one, not sure about the thickness, can't read it anymore..

Anyway, I'm really curious wich one is going to be your favourite next! ;)

Nessa
What's your grey 0.88 Dunlop made from Nessa? Or your electric guitar pick for that matter?

Sorry about your Elvis pick. That sucks. Maybe it will turn up.

M.


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Sun Jun 26, 2011 8:41 pm

Michelle, its all about color. Not thickness. Color. The pretty ones play the best.



And I'm here to tell you, that getting that transporter fixed is kicking my ass. When i get it fixed, I'll bring you some more colors to choose from.


Till then, Scotty out!


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Mon Jun 27, 2011 12:01 am

sbutler wrote:
Michelle, its all about color. Not thickness. Color. The pretty ones play the best.



And I'm here to tell you, that getting that transporter fixed is kicking my ass. When i get it fixed, I'll bring you some more colors to choose from.


Till then, Scotty out!
I knew it!! It's all about the colour, getting the right vibrations man.

Actually I cracked up when I looked at the ones I'm favoring at the moment. I'm a purple-fiend. Sue and Sage would take one too at them and say 'well derrrrr, they're purple!'. Well Sagie would anyway.

I swear it's a coincidence. A nice one, but a coincidence no less. :) :)

And stop loafin' and get that damn transporter fixed! No excuses!

:)

M.


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Mon Jun 27, 2011 12:12 am

reiver wrote:
It's OK, Michele - so long as you're arranging them in type and thickness order you're quite sane. When you start arranging them in order of the colours of the rainbow.............. that's when things may have taken a turn for the worse.

Stuart
Colours of the rainbow... Now there's an idea. Good thinking. Then I could drop a crystal on them and see where the Goddess takes me. :P


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Mon Jun 27, 2011 12:23 am

nesh16041972 wrote:
Hahahaha! Sorry, that's a good one! LMAO! :laugh:

reiver wrote:
It's OK, Michele - so long as you're arranging them in type and thickness order you're quite sane. When you start arranging them in order of the colours of the rainbow.............. that's when things may have taken a turn for the worse.

Stuart
Laugh your arse off indeed! (by the way you might need that) It's a brilliant strategy. It could be the perfect amount of crazy for finding Harold's replacement.

OK some of us maaaaaaaay have too much time on our hands...


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Mon Jun 27, 2011 6:48 am


I usually use a pack of matches until they catch on fire!!!


Good post Michele.


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Tue Jun 28, 2011 6:09 pm

Hey Michele,

Good post. It will be interesting to see what you finally decide to use as your primary pick. When I rediscovered the guitar a few years back, I started using the celluloid medium picks by different manufacturers, but they kept on breaking on me. As I moved up to heavier ones, they still broke, only more dramatically. It got to the point where a person would be well advised to use safety goggles while around me (maybe I just got some bad batches). Then I moved over to the Dunlop Tortex (solved the breakage problem) and began to move up in thickness. I started at the .88 (green I think) and moved up to the 1.0 (blue), and now I'm at the 1.14 (purple). I wanted to move to the thickest that I could find, but it was too awkward managing that large of a step. So, the strategy was to buy a small bag of picks, use them up (wear out, give away, or lose them), and then move up to a thicker one. It seems to be the right amount of time to go thicker and I have not regretted any of the moves, yet.

I have heard many times to go with medium strings and the heaviest pick you can handle to cut through other instruments in an acoustic environment or when acoustic and electric meet. As you electrify your acoustic, that probably becomes less of an issue. I believe that you can always back off with the heavier stuff, but it probably isn't a good idea to lean too hard on the light gear. I'd be interested in an update to this thread when you get things figured out. I hope to try the move up again when I do in the last of the purple picks (within a year or so). Purple is not my favorite color, but I'm getting used to it . . . . . blue is much better for me. However, I'd much rather sound good than look good, and many of my friends have said that's true (not sure how I should take that).

Hydroman52


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Thu Jun 30, 2011 4:36 am

schm040 wrote:

I usually use a pack of matches until they catch on fire!!!


Good post Michele.
Great balls of fire!!! They're lyrics you know.... not a how to manual....

Well I hope you have a fire extinguisher handy.

Don't try this at home kids.



M.


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Thu Jun 30, 2011 4:43 am

Hydroman52 wrote:
Hey Michele,

Good post. It will be interesting to see what you finally decide to use as your primary pick. When I rediscovered the guitar a few years back, I started using the celluloid medium picks by different manufacturers, but they kept on breaking on me. As I moved up to heavier ones, they still broke, only more dramatically. It got to the point where a person would be well advised to use safety goggles while around me (maybe I just got some bad batches). Then I moved over to the Dunlop Tortex (solved the breakage problem) and began to move up in thickness. I started at the .88 (green I think) and moved up to the 1.0 (blue), and now I'm at the 1.14 (purple). I wanted to move to the thickest that I could find, but it was too awkward managing that large of a step. So, the strategy was to buy a small bag of picks, use them up (wear out, give away, or lose them), and then move up to a thicker one. It seems to be the right amount of time to go thicker and I have not regretted any of the moves, yet.

I have heard many times to go with medium strings and the heaviest pick you can handle to cut through other instruments in an acoustic environment or when acoustic and electric meet. As you electrify your acoustic, that probably becomes less of an issue. I believe that you can always back off with the heavier stuff, but it probably isn't a good idea to lean too hard on the light gear. I'd be interested in an update to this thread when you get things figured out. I hope to try the move up again when I do in the last of the purple picks (within a year or so). Purple is not my favorite color, but I'm getting used to it . . . . . blue is much better for me. However, I'd much rather sound good than look good, and many of my friends have said that's true (not sure how I should take that).

Hydroman52
Thanks Hydroman. I found your advice really useful. I find the heavier ones are more responsive and I feel like I have more control. I also find that the lighter ones produce way too much pick noise, which i find really annoying.

I must say though that the heavy duralin and tortex ones, while feeling really nice and being smooooooth to play with, do tend to suck the sound out of the string. It feels like they dampen the string somehow. I find this with the x-heavy 1.5 mm Planet Waves duralin one especially. Maybe Wrench or another sound-engineer/expert can explain it. Hmm... maybe I'm just imagining things. I'd be interested to hear whether anyone else finds this.

thanks

M.


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